Get a Durable Zirconium Dental Crown in Only One Visit

Preparing the tooth for a crown typically involves reshaping the tooth to ensure the crown fits snugly. If a significant amount of tooth structure is lost, the dentist might build it up with filling material to support the crown securely. Unlike other dentists in Kenosha, WI, Dr. Crawford doesn’t remove healthy tooth structure when restoring teeth with a crown.

Next, an impression or computer model is created of the prepared tooth. Each crown is custom-made to ensure it’s comfortable, properly aligned with neighboring teeth, and doesn’t interfere with your bite or jaw movement.

Your finished crown is carefully positioned for a perfect fit before being bonded to your tooth using special dental cement.

How Our Dental Crown Process is Different

Why choose Dr. Pat Crawford for your dental crowns? We use the latest technology to provide our patients with longer-lasting zirconium crowns with less time in the dental chair. Combined with our friendly staff and competitive prices, it’s no surprise why patients in Kenosha, WI, turn to us for all their dental crown work.  

Preserve More of Your Natural Tooth

Other dentists destroy healthy tooth structure to apply full crowns, which often kills the nerve and makes the patient need a root canal down the road. For every millimeter of cut enamel, there are 30,000 tubals (canals) that go into the nerve. So, it’s no surprise that 85% of full-crowned teeth result in dying nerves that eventually need a root canal.

Dr. Crawford is the only dentist in Kenosha, WI who doesn’t amputate healthy tooth structure when restoring a tooth through an onlay. Using a technique called augmentation, only the diseased part of the tooth is replaced with the restoration. This results in less impact on the nerves, lowering the chance you’ll need a full crown or a root canal later.

Crowns Done in One Visit

Other dentists you’ll find in Kenosha, WI, require two appointments to complete a dental crown procedure. You’ll need one visit to prepare the tooth and get a temporary crown and a second to place the permanent crown.

At Dr. Pat Crawford, DDS, we can make your custom crown and apply it in a single visit. We get our onlay and crown materials from voco and kuraray, our oven allows us to fabricate your crown right in our offices. That means there’s no need for temporary crowns, so you can be in and out fast, with a newly restored smile.

Stronger Zirconium Crowns

Dr. Crawford is the only dentist in the Kenosha, WI, area providing long-lasting zirconia crowns. Made from a ceramic material called zirconium dioxide, zirconia crowns offer many benefits that make them an obvious choice for dental crowns. They are:

• Strong and Durable: Zirconium crowns are stronger and more durable than porcelain and many metal alloys. This makes them an especially good choice for people who grind their teeth heavily.
• Natural-Looking: Zirconium crowns are translucent, so they can be colored to match your natural tooth color
• Biocompatible: Unlike metal, zirconia crowns won’t cause allergic reactions, inflammation, or other adverse reactions in your body.
• Done In-House: We can create your zirconium crown in our office, same-day, rather than needing to order it from an external lab.

When comparing other types of dental crowns to zirconium crowns, here are some points to consider:

• Metal Crowns: Gold, platinum, or other metal alloys are also incredibly long-lasting, but because they’re less attractive, they’re often chosen for less-visible back molars.
• All-Porcelain & All-Ceramic: Offering the most realistic appearance, these color-matched, translucent crowns are ideal for front teeth and for people with metal allergies.
• Porcelain Fused to Metal: With a porcelain layer over a metal core, these crowns are color-matched to your natural enamel and look quite realistic, although they’re not as translucent as all-porcelain crowns.
• Stainless Steel: Typically used for baby teeth, these pre-formed crowns are durable and cost-effective for primary teeth.
• Composite Resin: Crafted from color-matched resin, these crowns are an affordable choice, primarily used as temporary crowns due to their lower durability.